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William Cowper (Уильям Купер)


The Rose


The rose had been washed, just washed in a shower
Which Mary to Anna conveyed;
The plentiful moisture encumbered the flower,
And weighed down its beautiful head.

The cup was all filled, and the leaves were all wet,
And it seemed, to a fanciful view,
To weep for the buds it had left with regret
On the flourishing bush where it grew.

I hastily seized it, unfit as it was
For a nosegay, so dripping and drowned,
And swinging it rudely, too rudely, alas!
I snapped it; it fell to the ground.

And such, I exclaimed, is the pitiless part
Some act by the delicate mind,
Regardless of wringing and breaking a heart
Already to sorrow resigned.

This elegant rose, had I shaken it less,
Might have bloomed with its owner awhile;
And the tear that is wiped with a little address,
May be followed perhaps by a smile. 



William Cowper's other poems:
  1. To The Rev. Mr. Newton
  2. Abuse of the Gospel
  3. The Glowworm
  4. A Figurative Description of the Procedure of Divine Love
  5. The Doves


Poems of another poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

  • Samuel Coleridge (Сэмюэл Кольридж) The Rose ("As late each flower that sweetest blows")
  • Robert Southey (Роберт Саути) The Rose ("Nay EDITH! spare the rose!--it lives--it lives")
  • Richard Lovelace (Ричард Лавлейс) The Rose ("Sweet serene skye-like Flower")
  • William Browne (Уильям Броун) The Rose ("A ROSE, as fair as ever saw the North")
  • Isabella Crawford (Изабелла Кроуфорд) The Rose ("The Rose was given to man for this")
  • Sara Teasdale (Сара Тисдейл) The Rose ("BENEATH my chamber window")

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